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Le Chiffre Wins!

The actor who played Le Chiffre, Mads Mikkelsen, entered a Danish Poker tournament and won, with the same hand that he used to beat Bond in Casino Royale, pocket jacks. Lovely coincidence!
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Jamie Gold wins WSOP

Jamie Gold, the chip leader going into the final table, has won the World Series of Poker No Limit Hold’em final of 2006. He won $12million. Well done that man. The particle physicist, Michael Binger, finished in third place, winning a little over $4million. He lost with Ace Ten versus Three Four, the flop came up 10, [...]
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World Series of Poker – finals

The finals of the World Series of Poker takes place today, (the hold’em finals, that is) and one of the finalists is a particle physicist from SLAC (the Stanford Linear ACcelerator). Particle Physics was my area of interest when I did my degree. Michael Binger is in the 8th chair, almost the short stack. He starts [...]
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Poker By Phone

Is it possible to play poker by post or email? Yes, if we assume that there is a trusted ‘know all’ dealer who tells each player their cards. However, is it popssible without such a trusted person. Let’s summarise the problem. First we must shuffle the cards. Then the cards must be dealt, and no player must [...]

This post is part of a series of 47 posts which begins with The Caesar Shift, the latest post in the series is Letter Groups.

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